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Highly reputable Dallas-Fort Worth animal nonprofit expands hours

What a fluffy kitty! TCAP

A Dallas-Fort Worth nonprofit made up of compassionate veterinary professionals who are working to end pet overpopulation in North Texas by providing high quality, affordable vaccines, spays, and neuters is expanding its hours.

Texas Coalition for Animal Protection, better known as TCAP, has added days at two DFW locations:

TCAP Fort Worth will now be open for walk-in vaccines on Tuesdays.
TCAP Garland will now be open on Wednesdays.

They'll offer free rabies vaccines on Tuesdays in Fort Worth as well as Wednesdays in Garland every week in January.

TCAP was founded in November 2022 by Stacey Schumacher, whose vision was to end animal overpopulation by providing low-cost preventative services throughout North Texas.

"From the very beginning, Stacey knew that making spay and neuter affordable and accessible, she and her team could positively impact North Texas animal populations," their site says.

She started out with one clinic in Denton, where TCAP and its veterinary team built a reputation as a competent, effective high-volume clinic.

Eight locations
Since then, TCAP has opened eight stand-alone clinics, has established and maintained a M.A.S.H-style travel program, and has set up a weekend vaccine event program that services more than 40 locations each year, providing more than 630,000 low-cost spays and neuters, and more than 1,225,000 rabies vaccines.

TCAP also provides accessible and essential basic wellness services such as vaccines, microchipping, heartworm testing/ prevention, deworming, and flea/ tick prevention.

With each spay/neuter, Team TCAP eliminates the possibility of a litter of puppies or kittens without a home. With each low-cost wellness service provided, TCAP helps alleviate the cost of pet care for owners struggling to make ends meet. These efforts combined have resulted in keeping hundreds of thousands of pets in loving homes and out of animal shelters.

TCAP partners with like-minded groups of animal caretakers at city animal shelters as well as hundreds of animal rescue organizations throughout Dallas-Fort Worth.

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1. Texas Hill Country route beckons as most scenic road trip in the U.S. A new guide from Condé Nast Traveler spotlighted 17 ultra-scenic road trip routes across the U.S. that are "worth every single mile" — including two through Texas.

2. New coastal Italian restaurant Scilla will transport Dallas to Calabria. Dallas is getting a taste of Italy's Calabrian coast. Scilla, a new coastal Italian restaurant inspired by the seaside village of the same name, debuted in the Park Cities on Friday, July 17.

3. Clara Hotel debuts in Plano with chef-driven dining and late-night lounge. The Clara Hotel has officially opened in Plano's Legacy Corridor with a chef-driven restaurant and chic new cocktail bar, which are part of a $4 million transformation of the former NYLO Dallas/Plano Hotel.

The Clara Hotel is now open. Photo by Greg Ceo Studio

4. Deep Ellum cheese shop Amor y Queso reopens with expanded market. A beloved Deep Ellum cheese and charcuterie shop has reopened after a hiatus with an expanded concept. Amor y Queso is officially welcoming customers again.

5. Mom-and-pop Italian grocery in downtown Dallas closes after a year. A buzzy grocery store in downtown Dallas has closed. Ari’s Pantry, the small local chain specializing in Italian groceries and to-go foods, has closed its location in the heart of the Central Business District.